Touch the Screen 

Box set. Extra tracks. Original Recording Remastered.

All Things Must Pass is full of great songwriting and great playing. This album was George Harrison's first release following the acrimonious falling apart of the Beatles. Co-produced by the unhinged genius that was Phil Spector, it features his biggest solo hit in the "He's So Fine"-soundalike, "My Sweet Lord".
Harrison's co-workers here: Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Jim Gordon, Klaus Voorman, Billy Preston, Dave Mason, Badfinger.   Essential!

Books for Children

Holes by Louis Sachar Ages 10 and older.

"If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy." This is the main philosophy at Camp Green Lake, where Stanley Yelnats has been sent. Stanley has been accused for a crime he hasn't committed. He has a choice to be sent to prison, or to Green Lake, a juvenile camp for boys. ("Stanley was from a poor family. He had never been to camp before.") He decides that Camp Green Lake has to be better than jail. When he gets there he finds out he was wrong. Every day for a year a half, Stanley has to dig a five feet wide and five feet deep hole in “Green Lake”, a desert that once was the largest lake in Texas. Stanley makes a friend, Zero (nicknamed thus because this is exactly what the world finds him to be), with whom he eventually escapes the camp...

Bestsellers

Stephen King - Hearts in Atlantis The 60's!  King can scare like noone else scares. He can also touch like noone else touches. In this book, he touches the hearts of those of us who lived through the Sixties and its aftermath. Set in fictional Harwich and semifictional Bridgeport, Hearts in Atlantis weaves five Vietnam-haunted small-town New England stories into a deeply moving overall vision. The five are: Low Men in Yellow Coats, set in 1960 and at about 250 pages the longest; Hearts in Atlantis, set in 1966; Blind Willie, set in 1983; Why We're in Vietnam and Heavenly Shades of Night Are Failing, both set in 1999.

"We now know what Stephen King, the master of horror, is afraid of. In Hearts in Atlantis, King takes up the Vietnam War, and it scares him so bad he won't let his hero act imprudently." (Caleb Crain, The New York Times Book Review)

World Literature

             Honey for the Bears The exhilarating Russia novel by Anthony Burgess

Cyberpunk

   The HACKER and the ANTS by Rudy Rucker

Jerzy Rugby, programmer, is involved in the creation and design of a new robot for massmarket. The product has to be alive, or better stated, A-life. In the process a special kind of ant is created, a cyber-ant, one that lives only IN the computer, and it's very very alive. You may be guessing the ants are troublesome and are going to get loose. What you are not going to guess is the rest of the plot...

What happens when man creates an inorganic self-sustaining entity that has the ability to evolve into a higher level of existence? What happens when the bugs come out to play? Rucker has some interesting answers to the questions. Wacky and funny book.

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Sport books

    Hand of God: Life of DIEGO MARADONA,
Soccer's Fallen Star by Jimmy Burns

 

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Essays, Biographies

  Joseph Haydn : An Essential Guide to His Life and Works
by Neil Wenborn 

                                              Classic FM Lifelines

 

  HIGHWAY TO HELL: The Life & Times of AC/DC Legend Bon Scott, by Clinton Walker

Prog rock (classics)
          Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte
Best album Genesis never made! Sounding like a lost Genesis album that would fit quite nicely between Foxtrot and Selling England By The Pound. Gushing with mellotrons, haunting Hackett guitar wailings, and even featuring two other Genesis members (Collins and Rutherford), most of this stuff blows away anything on the subsequent Genesis album A Trick Of The Tail.

Rock, Blues

   John Hiatt - Riding with the King

   John Lee Hooker - Very Best of Boom Boom

               Jimi Hendrix - Live At The Fillmore East
This two-disc release draws on four monumental sets that Jimi Hendrix performed with the Band of Gypsys on December 31,1969 and January 1, 1970.

Hits

Penelope Houston - Tongue   Penelope Houston has stretched the boundaries of her musical mediums, releasing several delicate-sounding acoustic solo albums that, despite their quiet demeanor, never obscured her acerbic lyrics. With Tongue, the multi-hued vocalist has found an interesting space midway between hervenomous punk past and more recent neo-folk leanings.

 

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PC-Games

Homeworld Cataclysm

 

 

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Email: francobrain@angelfire.com.
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